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Mojang Targets Repositories of Browser-Based Minecraft Copy ‘Eaglercraft’

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In the years following its first release in 2011, Minecraft captured a truly massive audience. With more than 238 million copies sold, it’s also the best-selling video game in history, a reign that looks set to continue. All repositories are reportedly linked to copies of Eaglercraft.

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Lawyer Sanctioned for Plagiarizing Opposing Counsel

Plagiarism Today

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.

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Brit Cops To Pirating DVDs For Global Hacking Syndicate

IP Law 360

A British hacker copped to cracking the copyright protections on nearly every major motion picture released on disc between 2011 and early 2020 and distributing copies across an online piracy syndicate that caused Hollywood to lose tens of millions of dollars, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

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3 Count: Unicolors Redux

Plagiarism Today

The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online. According to LDC, Sheraton copied the design of the rooms at their five-start hotel, Palais de Chine.

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Google Answers Question About Plagiarized Content, Kind Of

Plagiarism Today

However, in February 2011, Google launched its “Panda” update , which heavily targeted content farms, including sites that were engaging in scraping. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. Back in 2011, Google had a serious problem. It has an addiction to copied content. Bottom Line.

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Software Company Still Fighting U.S. Navy Over Millions in Piracy Damages

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It all started in 2011 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ After some testing, the Navy installed the software across its network, assuming that it had permission to do so. 600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. ” 579 ‘Infringing’ Copies.

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